Torrents to replace our FTP server
Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 2:07 am
Hi guys,
Long time personal torrent user and have recently started thinking about whether we could distribute our company's work files with torrents instead of our FTP server.
We do a lot of video production work for clients overseas which involves transmitting quite large files over FTP. We have our own in house FTP server which sits on a 200kb/s uplink in our Sydney office. Sadly, uplink bandwidth is still really expensive here in Australia. Additionally we have another 2 internet connections in our Sydney office for staff use each with 200kb/s uplink. We have several clients overseas and when everyone tries to download from the single 200kb/s FTP uplink things get quite slow.
Would it be possible for us to put a BT client on each of the three internet connections in our Sydney office and put the finished video file on each. Then create a private torrent file which we send to a client overseas. The client would then use a BT client to download the video from all 3 Sydney machines (each on a different internet connection) at the same time. In theory shouldn't this allow us to triple our uplink bandwidth?
Cheers
Long time personal torrent user and have recently started thinking about whether we could distribute our company's work files with torrents instead of our FTP server.
We do a lot of video production work for clients overseas which involves transmitting quite large files over FTP. We have our own in house FTP server which sits on a 200kb/s uplink in our Sydney office. Sadly, uplink bandwidth is still really expensive here in Australia. Additionally we have another 2 internet connections in our Sydney office for staff use each with 200kb/s uplink. We have several clients overseas and when everyone tries to download from the single 200kb/s FTP uplink things get quite slow.
Would it be possible for us to put a BT client on each of the three internet connections in our Sydney office and put the finished video file on each. Then create a private torrent file which we send to a client overseas. The client would then use a BT client to download the video from all 3 Sydney machines (each on a different internet connection) at the same time. In theory shouldn't this allow us to triple our uplink bandwidth?
Cheers